Artefact: One shows broadcast news from the early 1980s. A particular news story had been chosen and this artefact attempted to show how the news article would have been produced in the early 1980s.
The artefact was filmed (due to the university not having the correct equipment) using an S-VHS camera and edited using a ‘crash editing’ technique, which involved playing the recorded footage on one VHS player and editing the footage onto another VHS player.
In an exact replica, the footage would have been recorded on reversal stock using Beta High Band video tape and a Beta SP camera, and edited manually using physical splicing. Audio would have been recorded from a separate magnetic film and edited in sync.
The role of the news gatherer returning the story to the news room, involved the news gatherer having to hand the article in by hand to the office.
The editing of the footage was very difficult. If a mistake was made on the edit, it would usually result in having to re-start the edit in its entirety from the beginning, this was because it was be too difficult to edit over already edited footage in sync. This meant that the time taken to edit the news story was a very lengthy process, because when mistakes were made, starting from the beginning added a lot of time. It took 150 minutes to edit the article.
This could have meant the production of better news articles as the content of the story was planned and predefined in extreme detail during the pre-production phase.
The news was held in an extremely high regard in this period. The news would be broadcast only a couple of times in the evening, and people would plan their evenings around the news in order to watch it. The news was one of the most popular programmes on television, as it presented the actual current news and was one of the only mediums it could be seen.
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